I will not fail as the others

... for in my hands I now hold the charts which will guide me through perilous waters to shores which only yesterday seemed  but a dream. Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle. Just as nature  made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life to suffer failure.

Failure like pain is alien to my life...

Today I will savor the taste of grapes

...from these vines and verily I will swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me.

The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they piled one atop another, would cast its shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.

Today I begin a new life

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all. Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard, for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me generation upon generation.